![]() ![]() ![]() It is widely assumed that it was popularized in France by Théophile Gautier, who took the term to mean that there was no genuine connection between art and morality. Some say it was coined by philosopher Victor Cousin, however Angela Leighton writes in her book On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (2007) that Benjamin Constant used the word as early as 1804. The Decadent movement’s writers popularized the phrase “Art for Art’s Sake” (L’art pour l’art), whose origin is disputed. Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) was highly valued among late-nineteenth-century art-loving young men. The Oxford professor Walter Pater and his writings published between 18, in which he claimed that life had to be lived fully, with an ideal of beauty, inspired the British decadent authors greatly. By the 1890s, decadence, a term that has roots with aestheticism, was widely used throughout Europe. “The aesthetic movement stood in striking and occasionally stunning contrast to Britain’s crass materialism in the nineteenth century,” Fiona McCarthy writes in The Guardian. Many Victorians felt that literature and art played essential ethical roles, therefore Aestheticism questioned the ideals of mainstream Victorian society. Walter Hamilton, a critic who flourished in the 1870s and 1880s, was the first to identify the trend, releasing The Aesthetic Movement in England in 1882. It grew in popularity in the late 19th century in England, with notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde supporting it. It began in the 1860s in the studios and homes of a radical group of artists and designers, including William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, reformers who explored new ways of living in defiance of the design standards of the time, as revealed in the 1851 Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, London, and was supported by notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. This meant that the movement’s art was created first and foremost to be beautiful, rather than to have a moral, allegorical, theological, or other similar goal ” “art for art’s sake.” ![]() Aestheticism was a late-nineteenth-century art movement that emphasized aesthetic value and effects above socio-political topics and stances in literature, fine art, music, and other media. ![]()
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